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Description: Émile Zola quote: There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.

Description: Émile Zola quote: A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense... If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.

Description: Émile Zola quote: I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

Description: Émile Zola quote: “You don't understand this language, old fellow: otherwise you'd know that action contains its own reward. To act, to create, to fight against facts, to overcome them or be overcome by them—the whole of human health and happiness is made up of that!”

Description: Émile Zola quote: There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Description: Émile Zola quote: Existence is so bitter for every one of us! Ought we not to forgive others much, my friend, if we wish to merit forgiveness ourselves?

Description: Émile Zola quote: “Respectable people... What bastards!”

Description: Émile Zola quote: If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!

Description: Émile Zola quote: Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century...

Description: Émile Zola quote: Il y avait des hommes si ambitieux qu'ils auraient torché les chefs, pour les entendre seulement dire merci.

Description: Émile Zola quote: Parfois, ils se forçaient à l’espérance, ils cherchaient à reprendre les rêves brûlants d’autrefois, et ils demeuraient tout étonnés, en voyant que leur imagination était vide.

Description: Émile Zola quote: Sometimes, forcing themselves to hope, they sought to resume the burning dreams of other days, and were quite astonished to find they had no imagination.

Description: Émile Zola quote: There were men so ambitious that they would wipe the masters' behinds to hear them say thank you.

Description: Émile Zola quote: “Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.”

Description: Émile Zola quote: The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Description: Émile Zola quote: Crever pour crever, je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui!

Description: Émile Zola quote: As one must die, I would rather die of passion than boredom!

Description: Émile Zola quote: Everything is only a dream.

Description: Émile Zola quote: If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “It is not only in literature that fiction generates immorality. It does it also in life itself. For the substance of our life is almost exclusively composed of fiction.”

Description: Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “Si tous sont destinés en naissant à souffrir la violence, c'est là une vérité à laquelle l'empire des circonstances ferme les esprits des hommes.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: Il n'est possible d'aimer et d'être juste que si l'on connaît l'empire de la force et si l'on sait ne pas le respecter.

Description: Simone Weil quote: When we are the victims of illusion we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality. It is the same perhaps with evil. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Description: Simone Weil quote: God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Description: Simone Weil quote: There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Description: Simone Weil quote: The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or colour, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Description: Simone Weil quote: Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Description: Simone Weil quote: “Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: “The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”

Description: Simone Weil quote: Désirer échapper à la solitude est une lâcheté. L'amitié ne se recherche pas, ne se rêve pas, ne se désire pas ; elle s'exerce (c'est une vertu).

Description: Simone Weil quote: The reality of this world is necessity. The part of man which is in this world is the part which is in bondage to necessity and subject to the misery of need.

Description: Simone Weil quote: To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Description: Simone Weil quote: Words like virtue, nobility, honor, honesty, generosity, have become almost impossible to use or else they have acquired bastard meanings; language is no longer equipped for legitimately praising a man’s character.

Description: Simone Weil quote: If all men, by the act of being born, are destined to suffer violence, that is a truth to which the empire of circumstances closes their minds.